Time 19:00
Temple of Divine Providence, Prymasa Augusta Hlonda 1, 02-972 Warszawa
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The concert will be broadcast on TVP Kultura. Due to the television broadcast of the event, the door of the Temple will be closed at 6:30 PM. Please arrive early. We kindly inform you that the purchase of a ticket for the concert is tantamount to consenting to the publication of the image in connection with the broadcast.
Premiere. Concert version.
Piece commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera.
I wrote a new drama. Greek in form, Christian in spirit, universal in meaning […]. Drama on suffering: “Job”.
This is what twenty-year-old Karol Wojtyła wrote in a letter to his friend, Mieczysław Kotlarczyk. The young playwright understood this Old Testament story of unjustified suffering and steadfastness of faith from the Christological perspective and noticed its parallelism to the fate of Poland, plunged in the conflagration of war. As part of the centenary birthday celebration of Pope John Paul II, and in the eightieth anniversary of the creation of this extremely mature and symbolically rich text, the Polish Royal Opera invites you to a modern musical interpretation of Job.
Krzesimir Dębski’s opera is full of many bold juxtapositions of archaic language with modern orchestral means and an interesting sound of commenting chorus, resembling the one from an ancient Greek tragedy. It seems ironic that the premiere of the piece, primarily planned for May 2020, was cancelled due to the pandemic, which spread all over the world. Today, sanitary restrictions, imposed and binding, limit the possibility of scenic presentation, so the opera will take the shape of a concert. However, these difficulties may, all in all, turn the tables and strengthen the universal message of the work. After all, as the composer himself emphasizes: It is “an opera […] about the fate of a human being who has fallen into misfortunes and finds the way out of them”.
STAGE DIRECTOR TADEUSZ KAROLAK
ARTISTIC CONCEPT ANDRZEJ KLIMCZAK
COOPERATION MARLENA SKONECZKO
LIGHTING DESIGNER PIOTR RUDZKI
PROJECTIONS MAREK ZAMOJSKI
CHORUS MASTER LILIANNA KRYCH
CONDUCTOR ASSISTANT KAROL SZWECH
STAGE MANAGER TATIANA HEMPEL-GIERLACH, DOROTA LACHOWICZ
CAST
HIOB ADAM KRUSZEWSKI
ELIHU JAKUB BOROWCZYK
NIEWIASTA HIOBOWA ANETA ŁUKASZEWICZ
CHOREUTA 1, ELIFAZ SYLWESTER SMULCZYŃSKI
CHOREUTA 2 PAWEŁ KOWALEWSKI
CHOREUTA 3, SOFAR MACIEJ GRONEK
CHOREUTA 4, KONIUCH GRZEGORZ ŻOŁYNIAK
LOST, PASTUFF, JUHAS, SERVANT, BALDAD LESZEK ŚWIDZIŃSKI
PROLOGOS / EPILOGOS PAWEŁ MICHALCZUK
THE CHORUS OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA
ZESPÓŁ WOKALNY POLSKIEJ OPERY KRÓLEWSKIEJ
THE ORCHESTRA OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA
CONDUCTOR TADEUSZ KAROLAK
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- If you are not feeling well, are ill, had contact with an infected person – stay home.
- Please, take a mask with you. After entering the Theatre building you are obliged to wear a mask covering mouth and nose.
- Allow temperature check at the entrance.
- Disinfect your hands after entering the Theatre building.
- Please remember to sign the Participant Declaration. If possible, please bring the printed and signed declaration with you, if not – fill it in in the Theatre, in the place shown by the staff.
- Should the cloakroom be closed on the day of event, please take your outerwear to the auditorium
- Take the seat shown to you by the staff.
- Please come earlier – latecomers will not be allowed into the auditorium.
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- Disinfectants are available at the entrance to the building.
- Upon your entrance, audience service personnel may check your temperature.
- The common space and sanitary rooms are disinfected.
- Only 25% maximum of the seats in the auditorium will be available.
- We keep safe distance.
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